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Nováček
Nováček (feminine Nováčková) is a Czech surname (a diminutive of Novák). Notable people with the surname include: * Jay Novacek (born 1962), American football tight end of Czech descent * Jitka Nováčková (born 1992), Czech model * Karel Nováček (born 1965), Czech tennis player * Libor Nováček (born 1979), Czech-English violinist, poet * Ottokar Nováček (1866–1900), Hungarian violinist and composer of Czech descent * Roman Nováček (born 1969), Czech judo-player * Rudolf Nováček (1860–1929), Czech composer and conductor * Stephanie Novacek (born 1970), American operatic mezzo-soprano of Czech descent * Zuzana Nováčková (born 1945), Czech printmaker See also * Novák * Nowak {{surname, Nováček, Novacek, Nováčková, etc. Czech-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Nováček
Rudolf Nováček (7 April 1860 – 11 August 1929) was a Czechs, Czech composer, military conductor, and pedagogue. Life and career Rudolf Nováček was born to the conductor and Maria Hildebrand in the village of Bela Crkva, Banat, Bela Crkva (now Serbia). His younger brothers were the musicians Ottokar Nováček, Ottokar, and who with their father toured as the Nováček Family String Quartet. Rudolf Nováček studied Timișoara music school and then University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Conservatory in Vienna. Nováček became conductor of 11th Battalion in Austro-Hungarian Army and then member of 12th Battalion. In 1884 he joined Artistic Organization in Prague along with other significant Czech composers as Antonín Dvořák, Zdeněk Fibich or Karel Bendl. In 1890 he became bandleader of 1st Cavalry Regiment in Sofia and then from 1891 until 1895 in Michael the Brave 30th Guards Brigade, Romanian Royal Guard in Bucharest. He worked as conductor and music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottokar Nováček
Ottokar Eugen Nováček (13 May 1866 – 3 February 1900) was an Austro-Hungarian violinist and composer of Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work '' Perpetuum Mobile'' (''Perpetual Motion''), written in 1895. Life Nováček was born at Weißkirchen ( hu, Fehértemplom, sr, Bela Crkva / Бела Црква), southern Austrian Empire (today Serbia). He studied successfully with his father Martin Joseph Nováček, with Jakob Dont in Vienna (1880–83), and with Henry Schradieck and Brodsky at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1885. He played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the Brodsky Quartet, originally as second violin and later as viola. He subsequently immigrated to the United States, where he was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch (1891) and was appointed principal viola in the Damrosch Orchestra, New York (189293). He also played in the re-formed Brodsky Quartet. In 1899, after a heart cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Nováček
Karel Nováček (born 30 March 1965) is a retired Czech former top ten tennis player born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). In his career, Nováček won 13 singles titles and six doubles titles. His highest singles ranking was World No. 8, which he achieved on 18 November 1991. His best performance at a Grand Slam came at the 1994 US Open where he defeated Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov, Andriy Medvedev, Todd Woodbridge, Javier Frana and Jaime Yzaga before losing to Michael Stich in the semifinal. In 1997, Novacek was suspended for three months for failing a drug test at the 1995 French Open; he forfeited $185,765, but denied taking cocaine knowingly. Nováček lived in Boca Raton, Florida, United States for 20 years, and then moved back to Czech Republic. Karel and Maya Nováček married in 1990; as of 2002, they had three children. In 2002, the ''Boca Raton News'' reported that their ten-year-old daughter Anika was a promising tennis player, winning several tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novák
Novak (in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene; Cyrillic: ), Novák (in Hungarian, Czech and Slovak), Nowak or Novack (in German and Polish), is a surname and masculine given name, derived from the Slavic word for "new" (e.g. pl, nowy, cz, nový, sh, nov / ), which depending on the exact language and usage, translates as "novice", "new man", "newcomer", or "stranger". It seems to originate, at least by common occurrence, in the province of Upper Silesia, when Germanic stock moved into the upper Oder river region, the Slavs referred to the "new men" as "Nowaks". Another theory is that "new man" refers to a person who has converted to Christianity or to a new arrival in a city. It was also used for newcomers to an army and as an occupational surname for people who used the slash-and-burn method to create new arable land—''novina''. It is pronounced almost the same way in most languages, with the stress on the first syllable. The main exception is Slovene, which places the stress on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Nováček
Roman Nováček (born 5 July 1969) is a Czech judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...ka. Achievements References * 1969 births Living people Czech male judoka Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for the Czech Republic Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Czech people {{CzechRepublic-judo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowak
Novak (in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene; Cyrillic: ), Novák (in Hungarian, Czech and Slovak), Nowak or Novack (in German and Polish), is a surname and masculine given name, derived from the Slavic word for "new" (e.g. pl, nowy, cz, nový, sh, nov / ), which depending on the exact language and usage, translates as "novice", "new man", "newcomer", or "stranger". It seems to originate, at least by common occurrence, in the province of Upper Silesia, when Germanic stock moved into the upper Oder river region, the Slavs referred to the "new men" as "Nowaks". Another theory is that "new man" refers to a person who has converted to Christianity or to a new arrival in a city. It was also used for newcomers to an army and as an occupational surname for people who used the slash-and-burn method to create new arable land—''novina''. It is pronounced almost the same way in most languages, with the stress on the first syllable. The main exception is Slovene, which places the stress on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Novacek
Jay McKinley Novacek (born October 24, 1962) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League who played for the St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals (1985–1989) and the Dallas Cowboys (1990–1995). Novacek was a five-time Pro Bowler, who was selected to play each year from 1991 through 1995. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. Early years Born in Martin, South Dakota, Novacek attended Gothenburg High School in central Nebraska, where he was a two-year starter at quarterback and a three-sport athlete. In 1980, he set the state record in the pole vault at and also won the state titles in that event and hurdles. He was an All-state football and basketball player. His jersey is the only one retired in school history. Novacek was inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. College career Novacek accepted a scholarship from the University of Wyoming in Laramie and started his college football career as a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jitka Nováčková
Jitka Nováčková (born 28 April 1992) is a Czech model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Czech Miss 2011 and subsequently represented the Czech Republic in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant. Early life Born in České Budějovice, Nováčková went to school at Gymnázium Jírovcova and started modeling at age 9. She was a semifinalist in Elite Model Look Czech Republic 2009 and the face of sports apparel manufacturer ''Nordlbanc'' and its 2009 spring/summer campaign for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Česká Miss 2011 Nováčková, who stands 1.75 m tall, was crowned as Česká Miss 2011 held on 19 March 2011 at the Karlín Music Theater in Prague, Czech Republic. She succeeded outgoing Česká Miss 2010 and Miss Universe 2010's Top 15 semifinalist, Jitka Valkova. Miss Universe 2011 As her national pageant winner title, Nováčková officially represented Czech Republic at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant held in September 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil. In the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libor Nováček
Libor Novacek (born 1978McLellan, Joseph (22 November 1994 ''The Washington Post'', Retrieved November 8, 2010 ("Libor Novacek will celebrate his 16th birthday in a few days")) is a Czech pianist.(16 January 2009Crescent Centre hosts Czech pianist Libor Novacek ''Chad'' (Mansfield), Retrieved November 8, 2010 He has gained international reputation for his interpretations of the works of Brahms and Liszt, which despite his young age have already been compared to those of the great masters such as Kempff and Arrau and said to possess ‘exceptional poetic verve and inwardness’. His popularity grew greatly upon winning the Landor Records 2005 Competition, whereupon he established a long-term recording contract with Landor and proceeded to release two CDs in 2006 to outstanding reviews in the classical music press including ''BBC Music Magazine'', ''International Record Review'', ''Pianonews'', ''Crescendo'', ''Rondo'' and "Editor’s Choice" in ''Gramophone Music Magazine'' for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Novacek
Stephanie Novacek (b. Iowa City, Iowa, 31 August 1970) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who has appeared at many of the world's opera houses. A regular performer at the Houston Grand Opera and Opera Atelier, Novacek is especially known for her performances in contemporary operas and in obscure operas, particularly baroque works, outside of the standard repertory. ''Opera News'' has described her voice as a "rich, seamless flow of solid silk" and an actress "with always a strong presence on stage". Career Novacek studied voice at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( M. Mus. 1995) and began her career in 1996 as a member of the Young Artist Programs at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico and the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) in Texas. She made her professional opera debut that year as The Page of Herodias in Richard Strauss's ''Salome'' with HGO and her career has largely been based with that company ever since. With Santa Fe Opera she appeared in productions of Stravinsky's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Nováčková
Zuzana Nováčková (born 16 October 1945) is a Czech painter and printmaker. Nováčková, a Prague native, studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in that city before continuing her education at the Academy of Fine Arts in the same city; her instructor there was . She has been active as a painter as well since the 1990s. Her work is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char .... References 1945 births Living people Czech women painters Czech printmakers Czech women printmakers 20th-century Czech painters 20th-century printmakers 20th-century Czech women artists 21st-century Czech painters 21st-century printmakers 21st-century Czech women artists Artists from Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |